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Participants’ Biographies
Ilaria ACCORSI
International Trade Analyst
Sidley Austin LLP
Rue de Lausanne 139, Sixth Floor
1202 Geneva
Switzerland
Tel.: + 41 22 308 00 40
Fax: + 41 22 308 00 01
iaccorsi@sidley.com
Ilaria Accorsi is an international trade analyst in Sidley Austin’s Geneva office, having
previously worked in the firm’s Brussels office, and a member of the International Trade and
Dispute Resolution Group. She assists governments and businesses on international trade
matters with a special focus on matters arising under the auspices of the World Trade
Organization (WTO). In particular, she assists clients in WTO dispute settlement
proceedings and has assisted businesses in EC anti-dumping proceedings, as well as with
other aspects of trade with the European Communities. She also provides analysis and
assistance with the current Doha Round of WTO negotiations underway in Geneva.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Accorsi served for a year and a half at the WTO Secretariat,
advising on aspects of the Doha Development Agenda. In particular, she served as Secretary
to the WTO Committee on Trade and Development in Special Session, providing advice
and assistance to WTO Members with respect to a range of negotiating proposals under, for
example, the GATT and the Agreements on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures,
Technical Barriers to Trade, and Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. Ms.
Accorsi also interned in the Trade Policies Review Division of the WTO Secretariat, working
on the Trade Policy Reviews of five WTO Members and notably analyzing regional trade
agreements, services regulation, and intellectual property reforms.
Ms. Accorsi also draws on her experience interning with the Trade Defence Directorate of
the European Commission.
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David BALDOCK
Director
Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP)
28 Queen Anne’s Gate
London SW1H 9AB
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7799 2244
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7799 2600
DBaldock@ieep.eu
David Baldock studied Economics and Philosophy at Cambridge and has had a career in
independent policy institutes. He joined the Institute for European Environmental Policy
(IEEP) in 1984 and has been Director since 1998. He has been responsible for a wide range
of projects on European environmental, agricultural and related policies and is an
experienced observer of EU affairs. He has published widely and regularly gives evidence to
parliamentary committees and government agencies as well as providing advice for the
European Commission, OECD, governments and NGOs. He established the Institute’s
agricultural policy work in the mid 1980s and has been responsible for a series of research
projects on agriculture, rural development, and nature conservation policy in Europe. He led
the Institute’s work on the integration of agricultural and environmental policy and the
development of agri-environment measures, and has been active in central and eastern
Europe as well as the older EU Member States.
His recent work includes studies of cross-compliance, Less Favoured Areas policy, the
challenge of climate change for European agriculture, and the evaluation of the
environmental impact of aspects of the CAP.
Michal BARANOWSKI
Program Associate, Economic Policy Program
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Transatlantic Center, Résidence Palace
Rue de la Loi 155 Wetstraat
1040 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: + 32 (0)2 238 5282
Fax: + 32 (0)2 238 5299
MBaranowski@gmfus.org
Michal Baranowski is a Program Associate with the German Marshall Fund’s Economic
Policy Program, based in Brussels. Mr. Baranowski works across the full range of GMF’s
programming on economics, including work on regulatory cooperation, the Transatlantic
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Marketplace, and Perspectives on Trade and Poverty Reduction, GMF’s annual survey of public
opinion on trade, agriculture, and development issues conducted in the United States and a
number of European countries. He is fluent in English and speaks some French as well as
his native Polish.
Guy BEAUFOY
Member of the Executive Committee
European Forum for Nature Conservation and Pastoralism
32 College Lane,
Stratford on Avon CV37 6DD
United Kingdom
Tel.: + 44 (0)178 929 5010
gbeaufoy@idrisi.net
Guy Beaufoy is a member of the Executive Committee of European Forum on Nature
Conservation and Pastoralism. He has been working in Spain for the past 15 years, mainly
as a consultant evaluating the implementation and effects of EU policies in rural areas,
particularly from the environmental perspective. He is also a part-time farmer, producing
olive-oil, figs, biodiversity and fire-prevention. He is currently based in the United Kingdom,
and involved in projects in Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey.
Stig BERGLUND
Consultant
Confederation of Swedish Enterprise
Upplandsgatan 48
SE-113 28, Stockholm
Sweden
Tel.: +46 (0)70 265 80 65
stig@cfss.se
Stig Berglund is a strategic analyst and consultant with extensive experience in planning and
executing efforts tied to commercial and developmental goals. He has a deep knowledge of
strategic analysis and business intelligence, and understands business systems and business
development. Mr. Bergland has worked for a number of public as well as private clients, and
his experience includes giving seminars and lectures at the Institute for Futures Studies,
where he initiated a researcher network; studying Research and Development (R&D) issues
for the Swedish Ministries of Industry and Defence at the Academy of Engineering Science;
and teaching scenarios, forecasting, and dynamic problem-solving to companies and
organizations via the Futurist Network. He has also served as Marketing Manager at
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Öhmans, has held a chair at the Center for Strategic Studies, and has managed copywrights
for a large number of companies and organizations. He is fully bilingual in English and
Swedish, and reads and speaks German, Danish, and Norwegian.
Mr. Bergland is currently engaged by the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise on a project
to encourage an increase in R&D spending as part of the European Union’s next financial
perspective.
Pierre BOULANGER
CAP Efficiency, Equity and Transparency Research Program
Groupe d’Economie Mondiale à Sciences Po (GEM)
27, rue Saint-Guillaume
F-75337, Paris cedex 07
France
Tel.: + 33 (0)1 45 49 50 85
Fax : + 33 (0)1 45 49 72 57
pierrehenri_boulanger@hotmail.com
Pierre Boulanger has been in charge of the CAP Efficiency, Equity and Transparency
Research Program at the Groupe d’Economie Mondiale (GEM) in Paris since 2005. He is a
Research and Teaching Fellow at Sciences Po and is writing a Ph.D. thesis under the
supervision of Professor. Patrick Messerlin. Pierre holds a Master’s degree in International
Economic Relations from the Paris Political Studies Institute (Sciences Po) and also degrees
in Applied Economics from the Paris-Dauphine University and the Autonomous University
of Madrid. His fields of research are Agricultural and Rural Development Policies,
(De)coupled Farm Subsidies Distribution, European Trade Policy, and Structural
Adjustments induced by Globalization.
Claudia BRUGIA
Intern, Economic Policy Program
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Transatlantic Center, Résidence Palace
Rue de la Loi 155 Wetstraat
1040 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: + 32 (0)2 238 5272
Fax: + 32 (0)2 238 5299
cbrugia@gmfus.org
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Claudia Brugia works as an Intern with the German Marshall Fund’s Economic Policy
Program, based in Brussels. Ms. Brugia has just completed a MA in European Studies and
Economics at the ULB in Brussels. Before that she worked in the Italian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and studied in Rome, Paris, and Bologna. In addition to her native Italian, Claudia
speaks French, English, and some German.
Ariel BRUNNER
EU Agriculture Policy Officer
BirdLife International
European Division
Avenue de la Toison d’Or 67 (2nd Floor)
B-1060 Brussels, Belgium
Tel.: + 32 (0)2 23 85 092
Fax: +32 (0)2 23 03 802
ariel.brunner@birdlifeeco.net
Based in Brussels, Ariel Brunner is EU Agriculture Policy officer with the environmental
NGO BirdLife International. His main work is in advocating CAP reform and better
implementation of the EU Rural development policy. Before moving to Brussels he was
following the implementation of EU nature conservation legislation in Italy for LIPU, the
local BirdLife partner. As part of this work he has been involved in debates around the 2003
CAP reform and national implementation of cross compliance and Rural development and
well as in designation of the country’s Special Protection Areas (Natura 2000) network.
Born in Israel, he holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from Milan University.
Kenneth COOK
President
Environmental Working Group
1436 U St. N.W., Suite 100
Washington, DC 20009
United States of America
Tel.: + 1 (202) 667-6982
ken@ewg.org
Ken Cook is president and co-founder of the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a
public interest research and advocacy organization that uses the power of information to
protect human health and the environment. The author of dozens of articles, opinion pieces
and reports on environmental, public health and agricultural topics, in 2001 and 2002 Cook
was named one of Washington’s Top Lobbyists by The Hill (the Capitol Hill newspaper).
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Cook is a regular source of environmental perspective and commentary in national print and
broadcast media. He has made frequent appearances on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, CBS’s
60 Minutes, ABC’s Good Morning America, and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered,
among other programs. In the 10 years since its founding in 1993, EWG has earned renown
for its innovative, headline-making computer investigations of environmental problems and
polluters’ anti-environmental lobbying.
EWG’s research and analysis has made it a major force in national policy debates over toxic
chemicals, pesticides, air and water pollution, and the ecological impacts of modern
agriculture.
Cook and EWG have been the subject of numerous newspaper profiles, including the The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Chicago Tribune and The Des Moines Register.
Cook is particularly known for his decades of research and advocacy to reform agriculture
policy to advance conservation and environmental protection. At the onset of debate over
the 1995 U.S. Farm Bill, a front-page story in The Des Moines Register named Cook as one of
the five most influential players in agricultural policy, alongside then-Senator Bob Dole,
Leon Panetta (then the head of the Office of Management and Budget), then USDA
Secretary Mike Espy, and former Farm Bureau head Dean Kleckner. A front-page profile
in The Omaha World Herald in 1996 said, “[Cook’s] fingerprints can be found on nearly two
decades of U.S. farm law.” In 2000, Progressive Farmer named Cook one of agriculture’s most
influential leaders in the 20th Century, alongside advocates like Rachel Carson and Aldo
Leopold.
The New York Times (24 February 2002) credited EWG’s website on farm policy with helping
“transform the [2002] farm bill into a question about equity and whether the country’s
wealthiest farmers should be paid to grow commodity crops while many smaller family farms
receive nothing and are going out of business.” A National Journal profile (26 January 2002)
described EWG as a “lean, mean, muckraking machine” and “a small group with a big
punch” that conducts research “with sometimes policy-rattling results.” Cook earned B.A.,
B.S., and M.S. degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is a board member of
Environmental Media Services, Earthday Network, and is chairman of the board of the
Amazon Conservation Team. He is married to Deb Callahan and lives in Potomac,
Maryland.
Dr. Tamsin COOPER
Senior Policy Analyst
Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP)
28 Queen Anne’s Gate
London SW1H 9AB
United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 (0) 20 7799 2244
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Fax: +44 (0) 20 7799 2600
TCooper@ieep.eu
Tamsin Cooper joined IEEP in October 2005 and specializes in CAP reform and EU rural
development policy. In recent months, she has led a number of pan-European studies for
DG Agriculture, including an evaluation of the LFA Measure, and the development of High
Nature Value (HNV) indicators for the evaluation of rural development programmes. She
has also worked extensively on climate change issues and the land use and environmental
implications of bioenergy production. She closely follows EU institutional activity and
legislative development and has conducted analyses on the CAP Health Check, the
European budget process and the environmental impacts of trade liberalisation. Prior to
joining the Institute, she held a post-doctoral Research Fellowship at the Centre for
Environmental Policy, Imperial College. Tamsin’s PhD, undertaken at University College
London, examined the role of cooperatives in the restructuring of the wine sector of the
Languedoc, Mediterranean France, within a broader analysis of the social and structural
processes of rural change in Europe.
Pieter DE POUS
European Environmental Bureau
Boulevard Waterloo, 34
1000 Brussels,
Belgium
Tel.: + 32 (0)22 891 306
pieter.depous@eeb.org
Pieter de Pous holds a master’s degree in forestry sciences from the University of
Wageningen in the Netherlands. Since 2005, he has been working in the policy unit of the
European Environmental Bureau in the areas of biodiversity, soil, and agriculture policies.
Since early 2006 he has taken up the coordination of the European Environmental Bureau’s
water expert group focusing there on implementation of the Water Framework Directive as
well as following new regulatory developments.
Martin FARMER
Policy Analyst
Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP)
28 Queen Anne’s Gate
London SW1H 9AB
United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 (0) 20 7799 2244
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Fax: +44 (0) 20 7799 2600
MFarmer@ieep.eu
Martin Farmer specializes in the environmental aspects of EU agricultural and rural
development policy. He has contributed to research projects on cross compliance, High
Nature Value farming, agri-environment schemes, forestry, and the environmental impacts
of trade liberalization. Martin closely follows the agricultural aspects of EU institutional
activity and legislative development, and provides regular policy briefings for the UK’s
statutory environmental and countryside agencies. He has an interest in the strategic
development of the CAP, and has recently co-authored papers on the Health Check and
Budget Review. He contributes to IEEP’s Manual of Environmental Policy: the EC and Britain,
and authors chapters on rural development, forestry, and environmentally sensitive farming.
Prior to IEEP, Martin was a Research Assistant at the Research Unit for Rural Europe,
University College London.
Otto Thomas GENEE
Director
Policy Coherence Unit
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Bezuidenhoutseweg 67
P.O. Box 20061
20061 2500 EB, The Hague,
The Netherlands
Tel.: + 31 703 486 107
oth.genee@minbuza.nl
Mr. Genee is Director of the Policy Coherence Unit in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
Netherlands. His prior assignments include Deputy Permanent Representative to the WTO
in Geneva; Chairman of the Preparatory Committee and the General Assembly of the
Advisory Centre on WTO Law; Chairman of the WTO Committee on Technical Barriers to
Trade; Deputy Head of the Trade Policy Division of the Ministry of Economic Affairs,
responsible for the Uruguay Round negotiations; Technical advisor to the Netherlands
Antilles, based in Curaçao, responsible for foreign economic relations and macroeconomic
policy; Senior staff officer, Commodities Division of the Ministry of Economic Affairs,
responsible for general commodity matters and specific international commodity
organizations; Chairman of the Council of the International Tropical Timber Organization
(ITTO); and Staff Officer at the Multilateral Policy Division of the MFA, dealing with
UNCTAD, OECD/DAC, World Bank, and debt matters. He holds master’s degrees in
international economics and international law.
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Claire GODFREY
EU Policy Adviser
Oxfam GB
Tel.: + 44 (0) 1865 47 2328
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 47 2245
cgodfrey@oxfam.org.uk
Claire Godfrey has a BA (Hons) in Applied Social Sciences (Major, International
Development). She has been working with Oxfam GB for seventeen years, and has worked
mainly in the field of public policy, advocacy, and campaigning, with a particular emphasis
on the EU. Claire has worked as a researcher, adviser on EU policy, and headed both
Oxfam’s Humanitarian and Security team, and the Trade and Investment team. She has
worked on various advocacy band campaign initiatives relating to trade and agriculture
including the reforms of the EU banana regime, the EU sugar regime, and the 2003 CAP
reforms. She has written several policy papers for Oxfam including: “A future for Caribbean
bananas: The importance of Europe’s banana regime to the Caribbean” (1998); “Stop the
Dumping: How EU agricultural subsidies are damaging subsidies in the developing world”
(2002); and “Unequal Partners: How EPAs could harm the development prospects of poor
countries” (2006).
Joe GUINAN
Program Officer, Economic Policy
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Transatlantic Center, Résidence Palace
Rue de la Loi 155 Wetstraat
1040 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: + 32 (0)2 238 5291
Fax: + 32 (0)2 238 5299
jguinan@gmfus.org
Joe Guinan joined the German Marshall Fund (GMF) in 2004, and is primarily responsible
for programming on agriculture, trade, and development, as well as assisting with the
expansion of GMF’s Economic Policy Program into such areas as labor markets, social
safety nets, and macroeconomic policy. Prior to joining GMF, he spent four years at the
Department of Government & Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and at
the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives in Washington, DC, where he
researched political-economic systems.
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Harry HUYTON
Royal Society for the Protection of Bird
The Lodge,
Sandy, SG19 2DL,
United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 (0)176 768 0551
harry.huyton@rspb.org.uk
Harry Huyton works on policy development and advocacy for the Royal Society for the
Protection of Birds (RSPB), where he is the policy lead for biofuels, agriculture and climate
change, and Common Agricultural Policy reform. He is also the coordinator of the BirdLife
International Agriculture Taskforce and works closely with the BirdLife European Division
on EU policy issues. Harry sits on the Government’s renewable transport fuel obligation
sustainability advisory group, and is a Council member of Sustain, the alliance for better
food and farming. Before joining the RSPB in 2004, he worked at the Institute for European
Environmental Policy (IEEP). Harry has an M.Sc. in Environmental Technology and a B.Sc.
in Natural Sciences.
Martien LANKESTER, MD
Executive Director
Avalon Foundation
P.O. Box 14,
8730 AA Wommels,
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 (0)515 331 955
martien.lankester@avalon.nl
Martien Lankester is Executive Director of the Avalon Foundation, has worked in the field
of organic agriculture and food for over thirty five years. As a medical student he established
an organic restaurant in Amsterdam. As a medical doctor he set up an organic farm
intending to show the relation between agriculture and nutrition. He has subsequently
supported regional farmers and has set up and led different regional, national, and
international organizations promoting organic farming/food. In 1991 the need for support
in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries led to the establishment of the Avalon
Foundation. This international non-profit organization is specifically promoting organic
agriculture, agro-biodiversity, and sustainable rural development in CEE countries and
beyond. It implements projects based on local needs and ideas, involving and training local
specialists.
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Martien Lankester is a specialist in networking, institution building, and financing of projects
in this field. He has organized important conferences and has developed and implemented
projects for demonstration centers, agri-environment, training, marketing, and financing.
He sees an important task in broadening the basis for organic farming/food by showing its
benefits for nature, biodiversity, health and climate, and forging new alliances accordingly.
New (financial) instruments for establishing an organic/biodiversity oriented food chain in
developing countries will be another challenge.
Alan MATTHEWS
Jean Monnet Professor of European Agricultural Policy
Department of Economics
Trinity College
Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel.: + 35 318 961 069
alan.matthews@tcd.ie
Alan Matthews is Jean Monnet Professor of European Agricultural Policy based in the
Department of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. His major research interests are
agricultural policy analysis, the impact of OECD countries’ agricultural trade policy on
developing countries, and the design of WTO trade rules for agriculture. He was a member
of the Irish government’s “AgriVision 2015” group in 2004, tasked with setting out a
strategy for Irish agriculture over the next decade. He has previously worked as a consultant
to the OECD, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the
World Bank, and the European Commission, and has been a panel member in two WTO
Dispute Settlement cases.
Patrick A. MESSERLIN
Director,
Groupe d’Economie Mondiale
Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris
197, Boulevard saint-Germain
75007 Paris
France
Tel.: + 33 1 4549 7256
Fax: + 33 1 4549 7257
patrick.messerlin@sciences-po.fr
Patrick A. Messerlin is Professor of Economics at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris,
known as Sciences Po, the largest and most prestigious French academic institution
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specializing in public policy. He has been the director of the Groupe d’Economie Mondiale
de Sciences Po (GEM) since its creation in 1997. GEM is an independent research unit
seeking to improve the performance of French and European public policies in a global
world. Professor Messerlin has been a consultant to various international organizations and
firms, and served as a senior economist in the research department at the World Bank from
1986 to 1990.
Charlotte NYBERG
Senior Director
International and EU policy
Confederation of Swedish Enterprise
SE-114 82, Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)70 568 8019
charlotte.nyberg@svensktnaringsliv.se
Charlotte Nyberg is currently Senior Director of International and EU policy at the
Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, the main business organization in Sweden. She is
currently heading a project preparing business for the Swedish EU presidency taking place in
the fall of 2009. One of the priorities is to reallocate EU financial resources “from CAP to
competitiveness,” i.e. to ensure that the reform of EU’s next long-term budget means a shift
away from spending on agricultural subsidies towards more competitive-enhancing areas
such as R&D and innovation.
Ms. Nyberg has previously been Director for EU internal market issues and regulatory
harmonization at the Confederation. She has also been involved and served both Swedish
and EU business in the Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD), specifically coordinating
TABD EU standards and regulatory policy issues and as head of the TABD EU Office in
2001, when Sweden was EU chair of the TABD.
Prior to this she has worked as director for EU Internal Market issues and environmental
policy for the Swedish Trade Council and for the Swedish National Board of Trade as a
project leader for several specific studies on how the Swedish EU membership would impact
Swedish industry.
Charlotte Nyberg was born in 1964. She has a degree in Business Administration and
Political Science from Uppsala University, Sweden, (1990). She has also studied political
science at the University of Minnesota.
Courtney PHILLIPS-YOUMAN
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Program Assistant, Economic Policy Program
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
1700 18th St. NW
Washington, DC 20009
United States of America
Tel.: + 1 202 745 3884
Fax: + 1 202 265 1662
cphillips@gmfus.org
Courtney Phillips-Youman joined the German Marshall Fund in 2006 as a Program Assistant
with the Economic Policy Program, based in Washington, DC. She is responsible for
providing general support for GMF’s Economic Policy Program, specifically on issues
related to agriculture and trade. She has led a number of study tours to Europe on
agriculture policy issues for journalists and public officials from the United States. Prior to
joining GMF, Ms. Phillips-Youman traveled throughout Europe and the United States
before returning to her hometown of Washington, DC. She received her Bachelor’s degree
in Geography and International Development from the University of Washington in Seattle
in 2005.
Michael PROSCHEK
Ökosoziales Forum Österreich
Franz Josefs-Kai 13
A-1010 Vienna
Tel.: +43 (0) 1 533 07 97-0
Fax: +43 (0) 1 533 07 97-90
proschek@oesfo.at
Michael Proschek works for the Ecosocial Forum Europe (ESFE) in Vienna and is in charge
of the policy coordination of the Global Marshall Plan. Michael studied biology and law in
Austria. He started his career in 2004 as a project manager and policy officer at WWF
Austria, where he was strongly involved into the discussion on financing of the NATURA
2000 network and the implementation of the birds and habitats directive as well as the
negotiations for the Austrian rural development program. Before joining the ESFE he
worked for the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, where he carried out a
project on the interface between transport and environmental policy. Michael stepped into
his recent job in August 2007 and will focus his work on the EU institutions.
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Ronald STEENBLIK
Director of Research
Global Subsidies Initiative
International Institute for Sustainable Development
International Environmental House 2,
Chemin de Balexert 9,
1219 Chatelaine,
Geneva, Switzerland
Tel.: +33 147 837 051
rsteenblik@iisd.org
Ron Steenblik serves as the Director of Research for the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) at
the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). The GSI is an ambitious
new program developed by IISD aimed at improving information on the extent and effects
of subsidies, especially those that are harming developing countries or the environment.
Mr. Steenblik’s contribution to the field of subsidy analysis includes preparing the first set of
internationally comparable estimates of subsidies to coal production in IEA countries; the
first study of support to agriculture in Turkey; and, with an OECD colleague (Paul Wallis),
the first estimates of government financial transfers to OECD fishing industries. He has also
written papers and articles on subsidy measurement and classification, and on subsidy
disciplines. He is a prolific reviewer of other people’s work and a frequent speaker at
workshops and meetings on subsidies.
Mr. Steenblik’s professional career spans three decades, in industry, academia, the U.S.
federal government, and inter-governmental organizations, generally on policy issues related
to natural resources, the environment, or trade. Immediately prior to joining IISD in January
2006, he was a Senior Trade Policy Analyst in the Trade Directorate of the Organization for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). During his four years there, he made
important contributions to the WTO negotiations on environmental goods and services,
both through the research he undertook on specific topics and as a participant in WTO
symposia and meetings of the WTO’s Committee on Trade and Environment. He also
served on UNCTAD’s Consultative Task Force on Environmental Requirements and
Market Access for Developing Countries and oversaw the preparation of some twenty case
studies on this topic.
Mr. Steenblik holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University’s School of
Natural Resources (1974) and a Masters of Science degree in Energy Management and Policy
from the University of Pennsylvania (1985).
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Jack THURSTON
Co-Founder
Farmsubsidy.org
17 Roupell Street,
London, SE1 8SP
Tel.: +44 (0)207 928 1626
jack@farmsubsidy.org
Jack Thurston is a co-founder of Farmsubsidy.org. He has led the campaign for access to
farm subsidy data in the United Kingdom and continues to work on building a panEuropean network of activists and journalists making similar requests. He was formerly a
political adviser to Nick Brown, the UK Minister for Agriculture Fisheries and Food (19982001). He was been a Senior Research Associate at the Foreign Policy Centre in London
from 2002 to 2005, and from 2005 to 2007 he was a Transatlantic Fellow at the German
Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). He writes widely on agriculture, food, and trade
policy. Jack holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Oxford University) and a
Masters in Public Policy Analysis (University of California, Berkeley). He runs the CAP
Health Check group blog, which is the leading free online source of news and analysis
relating to the CAP. He has recently started working with the European Council on Foreign
Relations (ECFR).
Ann TUTWILER
Managing Director for Trade and Development
Global Development Program
The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
1700 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Tel.: 202-745-6670
atutwiler@hewlett.org
Ann Tutwiler is Managing Director for Trade and Development with the Global
Development Program at the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. As the Hewlett
Foundation’s first managing director for trade and development, she created the initial trade
and development grant strategy within the Global Development Program and manages a $22
million grant portfolio of policy research and advocacy grantees spread across the United
States, the European Union, South America, and Africa. In addition, she has built coalitions
of grantees working to reform U.S. farm policies and U.S. preference policies and also
developed and implemented a new strategic plan with a focus on improving agricultural and
agribusiness markets in Africa.
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She joined the Hewlett Foundation after serving for four years as President and Chief
Executive Officer of the International Food & Agriculture Trade Policy Council, an
organization that she co-founded in 1987. The International Policy Council is dedicated to
developing and advocating policies that support an efficient and open global food system
and sustainable production and distribution of safe, accessible food supplies. She served as
Associate Director of the Council from its inception until 1992. Between 1992 and 2002, she
was Director of Government Relations for the North American oilseed crushing and corn
refining companies of Eridania Beghin-Say, the French food producer.
Previously, Ms. Tutwiler was a policy associate at the National Center for Food and
Agriculture Policy, where she wrote papers on agricultural trade and the relationship
between agricultural development and poverty alleviation, among other issues. She was also a
policy analyst and Presidential Management Intern at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
She has published dozens of articles and edited two books on international agriculture
policies, and speaks widely on a variety of agricultural policy issues.
Ms. Tutwiler received a B.A. from Davidson College and a Masters in Public Policy from the
John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She recently received the
John W. Kuykendall Alumni Service Award from Davidson College for her work in
agricultural trade and development. She is currently a member of the Advisory Council for
the Dean Rusk International Studies Program at Davidson College, and serves on the Board
of Directors of the International Fertilizer Development Center and the Grains and Oilseeds
Agricultural Trade Advisory Committee.
Dr. Harald VON WITZKE
Professor for International Agricultural Trade and Development
Institute of Agricultural Economics
Humboldt University of Berlin
Luisenstr. 56
D-10099 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: + 49 30 2093 6233
Fax: + 9 30 2093 6233
hvwitzke@agrar.hu-berlin.de
www.hu-berlin.de/wisola/fg/ihe
Harald von Witzke is a professor at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, where he
holds the Chair for International Agricultural Trade and Development. His research focus is
on the economic effects of the Common Agricultural Policy, the trade and development and
poverty effects of WTO regulations, the economic implications of climate change for world
agriculture, and the climate effect of farming. Before joining Humboldt University, Harald
was on the faculty of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul,
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Minnesota, in the United States. He received his degrees in agricultural economics from
Göttingen University in Germany.